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Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
A good argument for gatekeeping fandoms
This is a perfect example of modern directors getting their hands on an IP they seemingly have no knowledge of and and doing everything wrong with it. Some of the jokes do land, Kathy Najimy is responsible for these, the rest of it falls flat. The few good ideas it may have are squandered before they were ever put to film and you will just be left asking why this was made? Who was it made for? Did anyone involved even watch the original? The darker aspects are all ignored in an attempt to sanitise it for modern audiences but doing it just creates plot holes. When the Disney channel can show the original film, where it opens with infanticide and three women being hanged, why was it glossed over in this movie the fact that the Black Flame candle needed fat, specifically from a hangman, to be made; and that Gilbert, who's shown as some benign bumbling naive idiot, APPARENTLY MADE 2 OF THEM!? Why does no one address the fact that the book is covered in human skin? And at what point did the Devil stop being their master and the source of their powers, and become some random bint in a forest? All in all, if you are a fan of the original don't watch it and if you have young kids just show them the original.
Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020)
Not enough singing or dancing
Despite having several moments where they could easily have added a bollywood montage with me, Indian superman, flying across the sky, this film fails to ever provide one, choosing instead to focus on women killing sharks.
Superman (1980)
The height of Indian cinema
This film uses the hight of 1960s Indian film technology to make perhaps the most faithful retelling of the superman origin story. People seem to forget that originally krypton is destroyed by three Indian cowboys. I don't understand why people knock this film as really the Henry Caval version could only have been improved by a pencil thin mustache and rampant murder of everyone in black face. This film is only matched in callibur by such classics as street fighter the movie (which has much worse action) and the garbage pail kids (which has much worse songs)